QAMISHLI, Syria: The last Australian women and children held in a northeast Syria camp housing relatives of suspected foreign militants left the site this week seeking to return home, a camp official told AFP on Saturday. “Twenty-one Australians left Roj camp” on Thursday — seven women and 14 children, aged eight to 14 — the Kurdish administrative official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Syrian Kurdish forces control the Roj camp, where relatives of suspected foreign militants including Westerners have been held for years.

The ABC has seen buses carrying the group which left the Al Roj camp on Thursday afternoon local time.

The al-Roj camp has confirmed the movement of the women overnight from the camp towards Damascus, where they are expected to be met by representatives of their Australian…